dcmeagle

Hi Gary, I don't use a GUI as I'm connecting over ssh. Most of the servers are in Texas at the saavis data center and we're here in California. I have used Gnome quite a bit on a solaris machine but even on the one linux box we have here I just remote in. I don't usually have a monitor hooked up to it, it's great how stable they are! I agree about the colleges. I know college in other countries are using OpenOffice, but I'm not sure about here in the U.S. Chad, Good luck! If you have any problems post them here. I'd be happy to help you out. Dominic

I'm running the Windows and Mac version. I still consult for the high school I went to and worked at for a long time and just helped them upgrade 200 computers to OpenOffice. We figured it will save them $25,000 every 3 years or so. The only linux machines I have are CentOS (a version of Red Hat) and we use those as our web servers for our software. They don't actually have a GUI so we only use vi (super geeky text editor). Al, actually Microsoft is the ANTI standard. Their file types are closed so only people with MS Office can open them. There's a world wide consortium that voted Open Office's format the open standard. Microsoft had proposed a version but got caught bribing at least one country so they ruined their chance. The most interesting thing is that several states such as Massachusetts have converted ALL government offices, including schools to Open Office. Many other states such as California, Nevada and Texas have legislation about the issue being discussed now. It doesn't make sense to have government files as doc's if you need to spend a few hundred bucks to open them. Any software program can add code to open Open Office's files, not true with MS. Dominic Maricic Home Inspector Pro http://www.HomeInspectorPro.com

We use OpenOffice exclusively to run our business. It opens almost anything you can throw at it, saves as most formats. The nicest feature is its ability to save directly to PDF. Plus you can't beat the price, free! You can always set the default save type to mimic all the MS Office types if you're worried. Dominic Maricic Home Inspector Pro http://www.HomeInspectorPro.com